Center Stage

Get a front row seat to local musical performances on Center Stage. This WITF original production brings local live music to you! Enjoy full-length regional concerts, Sundays at 8pm on WITF 89.5 and 93.3

We’re unable to post audio on-demand due to certain restrictions, but typically most concerts are repeated after a few months. Please check our program calendar for your favorite artists in the coming weeks and months.

Jazz Vocalist Jackie Ryan on Center Stage

The reviews for the concerts and recordings of singer Jackie Ryanare numerous and lavish with praise. One example from JazzTimes said that she is

one of the outstanding jazz vocalists of her generation and, quite possibly, of all time. She is the thoroughbred vocal equivalent of the Triple Crown, rivaling the dexterous sass of Sarah Vaughan, the instinctive smarts of Carmen McRae and the scintillating verve of Diana Krall.

Her double-cd set called Doozy stayed at the number 1 spot nationwide on the jazz charts for seven weeks, a record for a vocal recording only matched by Diana Krall’s From This Moment On. Her latest recording. Listen Here, also went to the top of the jazz charts.

Jackie Ryan was a featured artist on NPR, Voice of America, CNN Español, and Primetime A&E.

Her appearance on Center Stageis from a concert presented by the Central PA Friends of Jazz at the Ware Center in Lancaster in November of 2012.

As part of that series of concerts, CPFOJ also presented the legendary bassist Rufus Reidand the Out Front Trio. Reid is an honored member of the CPFOJ Hall of Fame. Our Center Stage Spotlightfeature on this program provides an interview with him and a sampling of some of his music.

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